Lucid Minds: Dreams & Mental Health
with Dr. Nida Chenagtsang
MAy 10 - 13 2025
4 TALKS | 9:30am - 12pm DAILY
Includes dialogues with special guest, Dr. Caroline Van Damme
In-Person at Pure Land Farms with online livestream option
(Both in-person and online attendees will receive one year video access to the recorded teachings)
IN PERSON REGISTRATION
In-Person at Pure Land Farms
Includes four teachings with Dr. Nida and access to our online learning platform with texts, additional resources, and video access to recordings for one year.
This program is NON residential. Onsite accommodations are reserved for students enrolled in SRI’s Counselor retreat. Option lunch add-on
Online REGISTRATION:
Includes daily livestream of Dr. Nida’s teaching sessions (4 Sessions) and access to our online learning platform with texts, additional resources, and video access to recordings for one year.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this innovative workshop, Dr. Nida presents the ancient wisdom of Tibetan Dream Yoga as a powerful modality for mental health practitioners. Participants will explore how our dreamscape serves as a mirror to our waking psychological landscape, revealing unresolved emotions and subconscious patterns that often remain hidden during conscious awareness. Through both theoretical foundations and practical techniques, participants will learn how recognize dreams as gateways to psychological insight and emotional healing.
The course examines how dream yoga practices can help identify and transform obstacles, release deeply held trauma, and resolve psychological blockages that manifest in both dreams and waking life. By familiarizing themselves with these techniques, practitioners will add a unique dimension to their therapeutic toolkit—one that honors the mind's natural capacity for self-healing through conscious dreamwork. This approach bridges Eastern contemplative traditions with Western psychological frameworks, offering an integrative path toward emotional resilience and psychological wholeness.
This course will combine theory with practical dreamwork and traditional Tibetan Dream Yoga meditation practices from the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition.
Included in this course will be dialogues with Dr. Caroline Van Damme, adult psychiatrist and family and systemic psychotherapist and co-teacher with Dr. Nida of SRI's Sowa Rigpa Counselor training. The program will be livestreamed from their Counselor retreat during Dr Van Damme's first visit to Pure Land Farms!
This practice is open to all however it is particularly suited to counselors and those in the field of mental health.
ABOUT DR. NIDA CHENAGTSANG
Dr. Nida Chenagtsang was born in Amdo, North Eastern Tibet and trained in Sowa Rigpa (Traditional Tibetan Medicine) at the Lhasa Tibetan Medical University. Alongside his medical education, he has trained in Vajrayana with teachers from every school of Tibetan Buddhism and is a lineage holder of the Yuthok Nyingthig, the unique spiritual tradition of Tibetan Medicine. He has published several books and articles on Tibetan yoga and medicine and his extensive research and revival of ancient Tibetan healing methods has earned him great acclaim in both East and West. Dr. Nida is the Co-Founder and Medical Director of Sorig Khang International and Co-Founder of the International Ngakmang Institute, established to preserve and maintain the Rebkong ngakpa non-monastic yogi/ini culture within modern Tibetan society. In addition to his work as a physician, he trains students in Sowa Rigpa and the Yuthok Nyingthig tradition in over forty countries around the world.
Edge of Mind Podcast:
Dr. Nida on the Power of Dreaming and Traditional Tibetan Medicine in the Modern World
